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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 793094
10/13/2009 10:55 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Wake up people, this "global warming" which is now called climate change is bullshit. This is proof of it. Climate change = more space weather events! It's not predictable at all! At least not to any degree of accuracy. However, if we finally stopped all the bullshit and worked out how this process is happening we can develop better predictions. Why has no one officially confirmed the links between space events and our weather yet? Quoting: Xenus 762820
you say climate change = space weather events.
i say partly true. depends on a time stamp of activity. say f the lid comes off ie the atmosphere is blown off then at that tme you are correct. but to say man made pollution has or does not exist is BS. man has fucked up this planet far more than what has come from space has. so prepare your little ass for a from space ass kicking you wll sht your self over. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/13/2009 11:13 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
I didn't say we haven't polluted this planet, we have, we've fucked it up totally, that's besides the point. If you think however that man can destroy a planet... you're really ignorant. This planet has been through a lot, surviving comet impacts, a GRB (in our galaxy) which they believe caused the massive wipe out of life and a large chunk of ozone millions of years ago, etc etc. It's not the planet people are worried about, it's the fact that if the changes are too drastic or too fast for humans to adapt, then we're dead. The planet will be fine, as for humans... that's another story. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 778753
10/13/2009 11:30 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Good post, OP. This has been my feeling for quite some time.
We have erratic weather patterns, earth changes, and changes in animal behaviors (beachings, birds falling from sky, etc.). Not to mention all the mystery noises, fireballs, and 'glitches' seen on govt monitoring sites. With of all of these things, which are obviously connected, our scientists choose to focus on their own areas of expertise while discounting the patterns in other areas. If there are scientists out there making the connections they aren't being given the attention they deserve. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/13/2009 11:50 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
While so far I have found strong links between space activity and weather, I still don't know how these charged particles interact with the atmosphere itself, what happens during spallation exactly? How do these sub atomic particles interact with the atoms in the air, organic matter? Can you imagine the energies needed to send a gamma ray burst from billions of light years away to here? I see the numbers but my mind cannot comprehend such a large value. A LONG gamma ray burst is 2 seconds, we've had some well over 10 lately, those long ones release more energy in those 2 seconds then the sun does in its entire life, just to repeat myself. A GRB is now thought to be produced by galactic cosmic rays passing through plasma with a magnetic field and somehow being accelerated to the speed of light.
Galactic and normal (from our sun) cosmic ray particles have been incoming forever and will continue to shower down to Earth, but what do they do? The frequency and intensity has gone up over the years, scientists cannot account for the excess particles we're awash with at the moment. Cosmic rays are always showering down, breaking up, changing things. The only thing I have found regarding the energies and particles and their interactions with organic matter is radiation and cancer... Is that all there is?
Interesting to note that in Antarctica and the north "pole" the cosmic ray flux is at least 25 times greater then anywhere else on the Earth, the exception perhaps being the South American anomaly. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/14/2009 7:43 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Particle Energies in Nature
How does nature compare?
0.03 ev
The energy of a molecule of oxygen or nitrogen in the air we breathe. It moves as fast as a speeding bullet, but is still rather low on the scale of energies.
0.5 eV
An atom or molecule at the temperature of the Sun's surface.
0.67 ev
The energy needed by a proton or neutron to escape the Earth's gravity.
1000 - 15,000 ev
Typical energy of an electron in the polar aurora.
40,000 ev
Energy required by an electron to penetrate a thin-wall Geiger counter like that of Explorer 1.
50,000 ev
Typical energy of an ion in the ring current.
Hold it!
We need bigger units:
1,000 ev = 1 kev (kilo-electron-volt, pronounced kay-ee-vee)
1,000,000 ev = 1 Mev (mega-electron volt or em-ee-vee)
1,000,000,000 ev = 1 Gev (giga-electron-volt or gee-ee-vee)
1.4 Mev
The energy of electrons from radioactive potassium, a major source of the Earth's internal heat.
4.2 Mev
The energy of alpha particles from radioactive uranium 238, another source of the Earth's heat (and of its helium as well--see positive ions, history).
10-100 Mev
Typical proton energies in the inner radiation belt.
10-15,000 Mev
Range of energies in solar outbursts (see Sun).
1-100,000,000,000 Gev
Range of energies among cosmic ray ions. However as their energy goes up, their intensity goes way down, so that ions at the high energy end are quite rare.
To be sure, sometimes even bigger units are needed:
1,000 Gev = 1 Tev (Tera-electron-volt)
1,000,000 Gev = 1 Pev (Peta-electron volt)
1,000,000,000 Gev = 1 Eev (Exa-electron-volt)
The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in Argentina has observed particles whose energy was estimated to be around 57 Eev and up.
[link to www.phy6.org]
The problem at the moment is as rare as the high end energies used to be, now they are rising in frequency... |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/14/2009 7:57 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Just thought I would show people the exact energies involved... Especially compared to something mundane as an oxygen atom on Earth. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/14/2009 8:06 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Atmospheric electricity is the regular diurnal variations of the Earth's atmospheric electromagnetic network (or, more broadly, any planet's electrical system in its layer of gases). The Earth’s surface, the ionosphere, and the atmosphere is known as the global atmospheric electrical circuit. Atmospheric electricity is a multidisciplinary topic.
There is always free electricity in the air and in the clouds, which acts by induction upon the earth and the electromagnetic devices.[2] Experiments have shown that there is always free electricity in the atmosphere, which is sometimes negative and sometimes positive, but most generally positive, and the intensity of this free electricity is greater in the middle of the day than at morning or night and is greater in winter than in summer. In fine weather the potential increases with altitude at the rate, according to some writers, of about 30 volts per foot.[3]
The atmospheric medium, by which we are surrounded, contains not only combined electricity, like every other form of matter, but also a considerable quantity in a free and uncombined state; sometimes of one kind, sometimes of the other; but as a general rule it is always of an opposite kind to that of the earth. Different layers, or strata of the atmosphere, placed only at small distances from each other, are frequently found to be in different electric states.[4] The phenomena of atmospheric electricity are of three kinds. There is the electrical phenomena of thunderstorms and there are the phenomena of continual electrification in the air,[5] and the phenomena of the polar Aurora constitute a third branch of the subject.[6]
Most authorities are agreed, however, that whatever may be the origin of free electricity in the atmosphere the electricity of enormous voltages that disrupts the air and produces the phenomena of lightning is due to the condensation of the watery vapor forming the clouds; each minute vapor drop as it moves through the air collecting upon its surface a certain amount of free electricity. Then as these drops of vapor coalesce into larger drops with a corresponding decrease in the total surface exposed the electric potential rises until it overcomes the resisting power of the air. This remark will be more clearly understood when it is considered that with a given charge of electricity its potential rises as the electrical capacity of the object holding the charge is decreased, which is the case when the minute vapor drops coalesce into larger drops. The similarity of lightning to the electricity developed by an electrical machine was demonstrated by Franklin in his memorable kite experiments.[3]
Atmospheric electricity abounds in the environment; some traces of it are found less than four feet from the surface of the earth, but on attaining greater height it becomes more apparent. The main concept is that the air above the surface of the earth is usually, during fine weather, positively electrified, or at least that it is positive with respect to the earth's surface, the earth's surface being relatively negative. Additionally, the presence of electrical action in the atmosphere, due to the accumulation of enormous static charges of current generated presumably by friction of the air upon itself, can account for the various phenomena of lightning and thunderstorms.[7] Other causes to produce electricity in the atmosphere are, evaporation from the earth's surface, chemical changes which take place upon the earth's surface, and the expansion, condensation, and variation of temperature of the atmosphere and of the moisture contained in it.[8]
According to M. Peltier, the terrestrial globe is completely negative, and inter-planetary space positive; the atmosphere itself has no electricity, and is only in a passive state; so that the effects observed are due to the relative influence of these two great stores of electricity. Researchers are disposed to assume that the terrestrial globe possesses, at least on its solid part, an excess of negative electricity, and that it is the same with bodies placed at its surface; but it appears to them to follow, from the various observations made, that the atmosphere itself is positively electrified. This positive electricity evidently arises from the same source as the negative of the globe. It is probable that it is essentially in the aqueous vapors with which the atmosphere is always more or less filled that it resides, rather than in the particles of the air itself; but it does not the less exist in the atmosphere.[9]
The measurements of atmospheric electricity can be seen as measurements of difference of potential between a point of the earth's surface, and a point somewhere in the air above it. The atmosphere in different regions is often found to be at different local potentials, which differ from that of the earth sometimes even by as much as 3000 Volts within 100 feet (30 m). [10] The electrostatic field and the difference of potential of the earth field according to investigations, is in summer about 60 to 100 volts and in winter 300 to 500 volts per meter of difference in height, a simple calculation gives the result that when such a collector is arranged for example on the ground, and a second one is mounted vertically over it at a distance of 2000 meters and both are connected by a conducting cable, there is a difference in potential in summer of about 2,000,000 volts and in winter even of 6,000,000 volts and more.[11]
In the upper regions of the atmosphere the air is highly rarefied, and conducts like the rarefied gases in Geissler's tubes. The lower air is, when dry, a non-conductor. The upper stratum is believed to be charged with positive electricity, while the earth's surface is itself negatively charged; the stratum of denser air between acting like the glass of a Leyden jar in keeping the opposite charges separate.[6] The theory of atmospheric electricity explains equally many phenomena; free electricity, which is manifested during thunder-storms, being the cause of the former; and electricity of a lower tension, manifested during a display of the aurora borealis, causing the latter.[9]
The electric atmosphere is the most frequent cause which deters or prevents electrical transmissions. During storms, it is seen that the some apparatus works irregularly, interrupting the passage of strong currents instantaneously, and often produces upon the apparatus in the offices, between metallic points, bright sparks; in telegraphic systems the armatures of the electro-magnets are drawn up with great force, and the wires and other metallic substances about the instruments fused. It is also observed, but more rarely, currents, which continue for a longer or shorter time, that prevent working of communication systems.[9]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Ok, so in this information the link between raindrops/water/ice crystals and electricity is very clear. Cosmic rays are responsible for a lot of rain clouds. Charged particles arrive from space as I have shown, this is how the atmosphere achieves a charge, these particles can come from the sun, from millions of light years away and etc. Lightning/electricity plays a crucial role in producing ozone and getting rid of radiation. |
| kalamity kool 
User ID: 793754
10/14/2009 8:16 AM
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Thanks for the info!
I will read it carefully, though my knowledge is limited. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 417551
10/14/2009 8:35 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
All of this mean nothing if it mean nothing.
The Sun crates the space weather.
Sun weather = Earth weather
True are false? |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/14/2009 9:24 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
All of this mean nothing if it mean nothing.
The Sun crates the space weather.
Sun weather = Earth weather
True are false? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 417551
True but it is only 1 part of a whole... There are more complicated actions at work in weather such as electricity and clouds which form from cosmic rays from the sun AND from galactic cosmic rays. The effects of GRBs are seemingly linked with earthquakes and volcanism and lightning also. A better understanding of the atmosphere and the interactions within and without will led to a better and more accurate model of our weather and we will be able to make accurate predictions. How does one predict a GRB or GCR or a flux or charged particles however?
Also interesting to note is sun being anomalously quiet, if you remember. Deep minimum STILL, extremely low activity, yet UVb has gone up, cosmic ray flux has gone up (thus more clouds), solar wind speed and density has decreased, all providing an interesting theory regarding HAARP.
Birkeland Currents
If the Earth has an "open" magnetosphere with field lines linked to the solar wind, it too produces a fluid dynamo of sorts. In a plasma, electricity flows easily along magnetic field lines, making them behave like copper wires. "Open" field lines from the solar wind that dip into the polar ionospere can then act like the wires which Faraday dipped into the Thames river, and they can draw an electric current, slightly slowing down the solar wind in the process.
[link to www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov]
This year they found that indeed it is and allows the solar wind to stream in via magnetic reconnection, it travels along our magnetic field lines. Are the military harvesting electricity or something using HAARP and the ionosphere?? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 131819
10/14/2009 9:47 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Wake up people, this "global warming" which is now called climate change is bullshit. This is proof of it. Climate change = more space weather events! It's not predictable at all! At least not to any degree of accuracy. However, if we finally stopped all the bullshit and worked out how this process is happening we can develop better predictions. Why has no one officially confirmed the links between space events and our weather yet? Quoting: Xenus 762820
Depends what you mean by "official" - truth is suppressed/classified in all fields. The "global warming"clowns draw attention away from the real problem - chemical, nuclear and electromagnetic pollution - never mind their Disney physics. As to weather or climate changes, the electric (plasma) model offers comprehensive answers as to "how" and "why" Spend a few hours reading the material presented at www.thunderbolts.info , and get enlightened.
Specifically: [link to www.thunderbolts.info] - enjoy. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/15/2009 10:37 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 700665
10/15/2009 10:46 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
No one interested? Seriously? Quoting: Xenus 783157
considering what is pinned these days, hell YEAH its a great thread! |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/15/2009 11:45 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Ball lightning is a debated and controversial atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects which vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt.
Laboratory experiments have produced effects that are visually similar to reports of ball lightning, but it is presently unknown whether these are actually related to any naturally occurring phenomenon. Scientific data on natural ball lightning is scarce owing to its infrequency and unpredictability. The presumption of its existence is based on reported public sightings, and has therefore produced somewhat inconsistent findings. Given inconsistencies and the lack of reliable data, the true nature of ball lightning is still unknown.[1] Until recently, ball lightning was often regarded as a fantasy or a hoax, but some serious scientific discussions and theories have evolved that attempt to explain it.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Ball lightning/plasma balls can explain the glowy type UFOs people report, especially in the reports released by the UK gov recently, all the reports seem to be either regarding glowing spheres or metallic craft. Metallic craft are either military/private or alien while the glowing ones are an atmospheric phenomena I think people refer to as ball lightning. They move around too, considering the electrical nature of these objects, the plasma would travel along magnetic field lines, as if intelligently controlled.
Lightning itself is mainly used to create ozone and remove/move radiation into the belts. Lightning is always present in volcanic eruptions, or above them.
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are bursts of gamma rays in the earth's atmosphere. TGFs have been recorded to last 0.2 to 3.5 milliseconds, and have energies of up to 20 MeV. They are probably caused by electric fields produced above thunderstorms.
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes were first discovered in 1994 by BATSE, or Burst and Transient Source Experiment, on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, a NASA spacecraft (Fishman et al. 1994). A subsequent study from Stanford University in 1996 linked a TGF to an individual lightning strike occurring within a few ms of the TGF. BATSE detected only a small number of TGF events in nine years, due to its having been constructed to study gamma rays from outer space, which last much longer.
The newer RHESSI satellite has observed TGFs with much higher energies than those recorded by BATSE (Smith et al. 2005). In addition, the new observations show that approximately fifty TGFs occur each day, larger than previously thought but still only representing a very small fraction of the total lightning on Earth (3-4 million lightning events per day on average). However, the number may be much higher than that due to the possibility of flashes in the form of narrow beams that would be difficult to detect, or the possibility that a large number of TGFs may be generated at altitudes too low for the gamma-rays to escape the atmosphere.
Link with lightning and gamma rays. |
| Xenus
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10/15/2009 12:28 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Once again, I must ask, considering all the evidence of the complicated interactions, all leading to some sort of atmospheric or weather change, considering we don't even understand these interactions fully (or we haven't been told the whole truth), how can ANYONE say with ANY certainty about what is going to occur or predict what the climate is going to be like?
Electricity, electromagnetic radiation and charged particles are the main components of our atmosphere, our world and everything we see. In nature nothing is wasted, everything is reused and recycled, a sun blowing up billions of light years away will shower us with particles eventually. Black "holes" suck in matter and then spit out energy in the form of GRBs which also hit us. Energy and matter, matter and energy, neither can be destroyed, only converted. Both interchangeable.
Why is none of this information and data ever included when talking about the climate? Why is it always co2 responsible for the climate changes? Open your eyes and see that the whole co2 global warming connection is nothing but a ploy to make YOU, the public, ask for taxes on carbon emissions. As if it will even make any difference except hiking the prices of goods and services even more. |
| Xenus
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10/15/2009 8:28 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Since no one has managed to debunk any of this information, why and how can people believe in global warming as we've been told? The only facts in the matter are, something is happening to our climate and we don't understand what. Some parts are cooling, some are heating... The only constant is change. |
| Xenus
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10/16/2009 3:09 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
For awareness. It really does get lonely in here with no one to discuss anything or add... |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 793234
10/16/2009 4:24 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
All of this mean nothing if it mean nothing.
The Sun crates the space weather.
Sun weather = Earth weather
True are false? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 417551
I am convinced that what the sun does affects the weather here on earth.
In Dec 2006 meterologists were prediciting a severe wind storm in the Seattle area, nothing much unusual about pacific coast winter weather.
Except there was a mass solar ejection just a fews days before the storm hit us.
Emperor Kenton, who has since passed away, warned us on GLP that this storm was going to be much worse than they were prediciting on the weather reports because of the solar activity.
He was right, it was much more severe than anyone could have imagined and power was out to many areas for up to 10-14 days because the winds knocked out power lines up in the mountains.
here on GLP after the storm many people reported seeing very strange blue lightning that night that followed strange paths across the skies even though there was no rain with the wind.
I am convinced that the sun's activity has very much to do with our weather. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 793234
10/16/2009 4:25 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
oops forgot to post link to article on solar activity for Dec 2006
[link to www.esa.int] |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/16/2009 8:20 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
All of this mean nothing if it mean nothing.
The Sun crates the space weather.
Sun weather = Earth weather
True are false?
I am convinced that what the sun does affects the weather here on earth.
In Dec 2006 meterologists were prediciting a severe wind storm in the Seattle area, nothing much unusual about pacific coast winter weather.
Except there was a mass solar ejection just a fews days before the storm hit us.
Emperor Kenton, who has since passed away, warned us on GLP that this storm was going to be much worse than they were prediciting on the weather reports because of the solar activity.
He was right, it was much more severe than anyone could have imagined and power was out to many areas for up to 10-14 days because the winds knocked out power lines up in the mountains.
here on GLP after the storm many people reported seeing very strange blue lightning that night that followed strange paths across the skies even though there was no rain with the wind.
I am convinced that the sun's activity has very much to do with our weather. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 793234
I'm glad people still remember Kent, I liked reading his stuff, it was very interesting, while not everything was correct he really had a lot of data and images and movies and etc. The sun of course plays a major role, UVb levels have been increasing lately, the sun's light output has dropped slightly, the sun's magnetic field has weakened about 30% since first measurements and that is what makes the heliosphere outside the solar system, the buffer between us and interstellar space... I would think the radiation in that zone would be very high due to the lack of shielding from all the cosmic rays and bursts of high energy from various sources in the universe, so if we ever wanted to go and visit other stars then we need magnetic field shielding technology. All these forces play some part in our weather... what if we make our shield better? Or make a new shield? But before we do anything it would be better to know what these energies and particles do to our atmosphere and everything in it, how much do they affect things? All the information I posted is what is going on above each and every single person right now. Constant shower of particles and the random bursts of uber high enegies... |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 782535
10/16/2009 10:14 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
All of this mean nothing if it mean nothing.
The Sun crates the space weather.
Sun weather = Earth weather
True are false?
I am convinced that what the sun does affects the weather here on earth.
In Dec 2006 meterologists were prediciting a severe wind storm in the Seattle area, nothing much unusual about pacific coast winter weather.
Except there was a mass solar ejection just a fews days before the storm hit us.
Emperor Kenton, who has since passed away, warned us on GLP that this storm was going to be much worse than they were prediciting on the weather reports because of the solar activity.
He was right, it was much more severe than anyone could have imagined and power was out to many areas for up to 10-14 days because the winds knocked out power lines up in the mountains.
here on GLP after the storm many people reported seeing very strange blue lightning that night that followed strange paths across the skies even though there was no rain with the wind.
I am convinced that the sun's activity has very much to do with our weather.
I'm glad people still remember Kent, I liked reading his stuff, it was very interesting, while not everything was correct he really had a lot of data and images and movies and etc. The sun of course plays a major role, UVb levels have been increasing lately, the sun's light output has dropped slightly, the sun's magnetic field has weakened about 30% since first measurements and that is what makes the heliosphere outside the solar system, the buffer between us and interstellar space... I would think the radiation in that zone would be very high due to the lack of shielding from all the cosmic rays and bursts of high energy from various sources in the universe, so if we ever wanted to go and visit other stars then we need magnetic field shielding technology. All these forces play some part in our weather... what if we make our shield better? Or make a new shield? But before we do anything it would be better to know what these energies and particles do to our atmosphere and everything in it, how much do they affect things? All the information I posted is what is going on above each and every single person right now. Constant shower of particles and the random bursts of uber high enegies... Quoting: Xenus 792721
GReat sTuff
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| Xenus
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10/17/2009 9:04 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
We're now nearing the conditions and sun activity of the Maunder minimum, in which time "coincided" a mini ice age. So it looks like the same will happen again unless the sun resumes normal activity... but then it would mean that this was a calm before the storm and that our next maximum will be stronger then originally predicted. Either way it's going to be a bumpy ride. |
| Xenus
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10/18/2009 3:14 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES
The human eye is uniquely adapted to see only a
very limited form of light. Not surprisingly, this
light is of a form that best illuminates the surface of
the earth. Of all the light forms produced by the sun,
this light, falling within the visible spectrum, is most
capable of penetrating a thick atmosphere, re-
flecting off of, and resolving well, objects we need
to see. The light and the eye are ideally matched to
serve the special purposes of living organisms.
Likewise, scientists probing the physical at-
tributes of atoms and molecules find most useful
special forms of light ideally suited for “viewing”
objects of this size and scale. Although technically
known as synchrotron radiation, named after the
early laboratory machines in which its presence
was first observed, it is really just another form of
light.
It encompasses a broad range of “colors” or
wavelengths of light. In its most useful form, it
cannot be seen by the human eye. Its optimum band
of operating wavelengths lies just beyond the deep
blue and violet end of the visible spectrum.
Aided by Basic Energy Sciences research, a
number of premier facilities now produce this light
with great brightness and versatility. Just as the
microscope ushered in an era of new discovery, so
too are the instruments of these facilities ushering in
their own. Although still in a period of relative
infancy, these facilities have already had major
impacts on basic research programs of leading in-
dustries, universities, and Government laborato-
ries.
Further, their value extends beyond basic re-
search. More than a dozen major United States
corporations are using these facilities for industrial
research, ranging from x-ray lithography in the
manufacture of computer chips to the development
of catalysts in the refining of petrochemicals.
Synchrotron radiation is produced as a natural
consequence of accelerating electrically charged
particles, such as electrons or, in some advanced
light sources, their sister particles, positrons. The
simplest machines accomplish this by accelerating
the charged particles to a velocity near the speed of
light (186,000 miles per second) and simultaneously
forcing them with powerful magnets to follow a
circular or curved path in what is now known as a
storage ring. |
| Xenus
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10/18/2009 2:22 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
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| Xenus
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10/19/2009 10:24 PM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
September 29, 2009: Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. "The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions."
The cause of the surge is solar minimum, a deep lull in solar activity that began around 2007 and continues today. Researchers have long known that cosmic rays go up when solar activity goes down. Right now solar activity is as weak as it has been in modern times, setting the stage for what Mewaldt calls "a perfect storm of cosmic rays."
"We're experiencing the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century," says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, "so it is no surprise that cosmic rays are at record levels for the Space Age."
Galactic cosmic rays come from outside the solar system. They are subatomic particles--mainly protons but also some heavy nuclei--accelerated to almost light speed by distant supernova explosions. Cosmic rays cause "air showers" of secondary particles when they hit Earth's atmosphere; they pose a health hazard to astronauts; and a single cosmic ray can disable a satellite if it hits an unlucky integrated circuit.
The sun's magnetic field is our first line of defense against these highly-charged, energetic particles. The entire solar system from Mercury to Pluto and beyond is surrounded by a bubble of magnetism called "the heliosphere." It springs from the sun's inner magnetic dynamo and is inflated to gargantuan proportions by the solar wind. When a cosmic ray tries to enter the solar system, it must fight through the heliosphere's outer layers; and if it makes it inside, there is a thicket of magnetic fields waiting to scatter and deflect the intruder.
"At times of low solar activity, this natural shielding is weakened, and more cosmic rays are able to reach the inner solar system," explains Pesnell.
Mewaldt lists three aspects of the current solar minimum that are combining to create the perfect storm:
1. The sun's magnetic field is weak. "There has been a sharp decline in the sun's interplanetary magnetic field down to 4 nT (nanoTesla) from typical values of 6 to 8 nT," he says. "This record-low interplanetary magnetic field undoubtedly contributes to the record-high cosmic ray fluxes." [data]
2. The solar wind is flagging. "Measurements by the Ulysses spacecraft show that solar wind pressure is at a 50-year low," he continues, "so the magnetic bubble that protects the solar system is not being inflated as much as usual." A smaller bubble gives cosmic rays a shorter-shot into the solar system. Once a cosmic ray enters the solar system, it must "swim upstream" against the solar wind. Solar wind speeds have dropped to very low levels in 2008 and 2009, making it easier than usual for a cosmic ray to proceed. [data]
3. The current sheet is flattening. Imagine the sun wearing a ballerina's skirt as wide as the entire solar system with an electrical current flowing along its wavy folds. It's real, and it's called the "heliospheric current sheet," a vast transition zone where the polarity of the sun's magnetic field changes from plus to minus. The current sheet is important because cosmic rays are guided by its folds. Lately, the current sheet has been flattening itself out, allowing cosmic rays more direct access to the inner solar system.
"If the flattening continues, we could see cosmic ray fluxes jump all the way to 30% above previous Space Age highs," predicts Mewaldt. [data]
Earth is in no great peril. Our planet's atmosphere and magnetic field provide some defense against the extra cosmic rays. Indeed, we've experienced much worse in the past. Hundreds of years ago, cosmic ray fluxes were at least 200% to 300% higher than anything measured during the Space Age. Researchers know this because when cosmic rays hit the atmosphere, they produce an isotope of beryllium, 10Be, which is preserved in polar ice. By examining ice cores, it is possible to estimate cosmic ray fluxes more than a thousand years into the past. Even with the recent surge, cosmic rays today are much weaker than they have been at times in the past millennium. [data]
"The space era has so far experienced a time of relatively low cosmic ray activity," says Mewaldt. "We may now be returning to levels typical of past centuries."
[link to science.nasa.gov] |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/20/2009 12:16 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Rising cosmic ray flux, excess amounts of charged particles being recorded, erratic and extreme weather events on Earth, what does it all mean? It should be starting to become fairly obvious to people that these space events are responsible for our changing climate, look at the timing of the climate changes and the cosmic ray flux increase. |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/20/2009 4:40 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Can't deny, can't debunk, but only bury. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 779169
10/20/2009 5:21 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Save the Planet!? And you rant on about everyone being so stupid? The planet doesn't ever , never will need saving. Humans need saving. Sadly, I would have to say we were doomed from the day our Monkey suits were created outside of the natural order (The tree of life). |
| Xenus
User ID: 792721
10/20/2009 5:39 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
Save the planet? I never said anything like that. I know full well the planet is fine, I want to know what the fuck is going on and to show people that events in space lead to weather events on Earth. Especially now that cosmic rays are higher then ever before during our technological age. Did no one notice the 19% increase in galactic cosmic ray flux THIS YEAR ALONE? Anyone notice how cloudy it's been this year? The nations closer to the poles and the area near around the South American anomaly would experience these effects more then anyone, cosmic ray flux rises to your relative position to space and there is a lot less atmosphere around the poles thus more particles make it through. The anomaly is simply an area where more high energy particles seem to gather then anywhere else, NASA's GOES has images of where it is located, if you need.
Why has something to crucial and important not been studied properly or hidden from us? Why do the weather people always insist it's the winds and the pressure and the magical pixies and elves responsible for the weather, which they cannot predict to save their lives. The lack of accurate predictions should show anyone with half a brain that the models they use are FAULTY. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 779169
10/20/2009 6:33 AM | | Re: Proof of space weather events affecting Earth's weather! | Quote |
not you op I was late to the thread and responding the someone from page one |
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